jhoffman

i should get it so I know where not to go

they smoked that craw, surprising they arent ambushing those smaller fish.

I buffed my aluminum, used steelwool to "sand it" and then buffing compound. Cost... if you own the tools... $30?

Is that the biggest sack ever?

If you have the boat to run shallow go lower on the river, below the shamokin dam

a white fluke with the head dipped in red dye or colored with a marker to be "clown"

You and I tend to agree very often but this one I am not in agreement. A crankbait that hunts kicks out at random and its that kick that makes or breaks it. Not all cranks kick out and return.

Ive got a bunch from a bunch of different manufacturers and I wing em but I dont have a ton of confidence in a trap style bait. Maybe its because a lot of my lakes lack grass.

Tharp won the cup in 2013 - Tharp started each of the last three days on the finger, one of the few areas lined with homes. He’d throw a bluegill-colored 3/8-ounce 4x4 Swim Jig with a Strike King Rage Craw Trailer (green pumpkin with 1/3 of the body trimmed) on the side that featured a mud bank. Once the sun got up around 9 a.m., he’d bounce across and fish the longer riprap stretch with a Lucky Craft 1.5 squarebill crankbait (TO color).

Takahiro Omori - 2004 classic was the bagly but he was flipn creature baits and a jig up till the last fifteen mins

trigger x goo bug - 2012? I think thats the year Wheeler won the cup

Pretty sure they wont just hand you cash

a ball head with a 45* tie works for me

I cook in the woods or on the water just like I am at home, no difference. Tournament day I probably will take a sandwhich or I wont eat.

motors need lots of attention now a days with ethenol in the fuel it destroys everything if not watched. my new saw says dont even let treated fuel in it longer than three months because the octane rating drops so fast.

Take the spool out of the reel. Remove the clip holding the bearing in the side plate and pull out that bearing. Using spool pin pliers pull the pin on the spool and remove that bearing. Take the bearing shields off and use a product like bearing blaster or put them in a shotglass full of lighter fluid and I put my shotglass into a ultrasonic cleaner. Spin the bearings after dried, check to see if they spin freely. Add one drop of a lube of choice I use quantum hot sauce. Install the bearings in reverse they came out. Keep in mind sometimes theres another bearing inside the reel also and to get to it, everything has to come out of the reel except a few select things.

My current boat is a 17' with a 25hp motor. I fish tournaments. Sure I cant run to all the spots and I always get last pick of spots but I still go. Sometimes the guys in the big boats blow right past good spots trying to get away.

If you do it yourself you want to get a pair of spool pin pliers. I made my own but Ill be buying a set soon. Its just too risky of messing up a good spool.

Try havoc, they have them

Speaking of HD... I used to always get a kick out of that sunglasses commercial... see the world in HD. Who was the genious who thought up marketing polarized glasses to the public as seeing in HD.

If I remember correctly from my video training the human eye cant really detect 4k anyhow.

Other than fishn stuff.... A new stihl ms251 with a 16" bar Couple of treestands and 18 of the old API Skyhooks with 150bolts to go with them for way in deep stands that I dont want to carry a mile. Oh... a new intake boot cause the factory one was shot in my car and new front brakes and rotors, those I dont consider fun.

Ten years ago id feel pretty secure, without outriggers, id dump it for sure.

I thought I was gonna open this up and find a new triton or something, my back couldnt take sitting all day, heck I cant do it in a deer stand no way I could in a yak.

I think it should change every year because as it stands its a prespawn fishermans dream. Thats why KVD is always so favored. Put it in a rotation of seasons. 2015 - since 14 was Spring this one is mid summer dog day nonsense, deep fishn 2016 - Fall feed 2017 - Dead of winter, texas or cali 2018 - Prespawn/Spawn